How to Use pubis in a Sentence

pubis

noun
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  • Big silver lines, snaking their way from one side of my pubis to the other.
    — Health.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Ina’s pubis was covered in thin white hairs as soft as fine grass.
    — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • The slowness with which the tip of the index finger glides over the skin of the belly, the embowed branches covering the pubis, the lips’ edge.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • For men that would be the scrotum; the pubis — the area surrounding the pelvis — was the most likely injury spot for women.
    — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Women were most in danger of harming the pubis (the hairy region above the vagina), the inner thigh, and vagina.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2017
  • If all goes to plan, this second week will also see Sue lose its chest ribs, neck and chest backbones, and pubis and ischium (the lower hip bones).
    — Steve Johnson and Phil Geib, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • And just to clarify, the majority of the injuries occurred in the pubic area — the scrotum for men and pubis for women.
    — Sarah Wu, Teen Vogue, 16 Aug. 2017
  • However, extreme groomers were no more likely to be diagnosed than those who didn't groom their pubes as often.
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • After all, paying a complete stranger to rip off your pubes—with hot wax at that!— is way more intimidating than deciding to get bangs.
    — Maddy Zollo Rusbosin, Women's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Suddenly, a depressed horse, an alcoholic mad scientist and two preteens with talking pubes had zoomed to the center of pop culture.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The animal — which, by the way, is known from several specimens — had a pelvic girdle with rear-pointing pubis and ischium, like the ornithischians.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Swinging the pubis backwards is the Darwinian equivalent of loosening your belt at Thanksgiving dinner.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2016
  • Rather than meaningfully engage that potent, longstanding idea, the show presents a literal dream sequence of Floyd’s Freudian nightmare, culminating in the reveal of his now-blank pubis.
    — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
  • And, unfortunately for the anonymous Englishwoman with world-famous pubes, doctors still don’t agree about canities subita, the contested phenomenon where hair blanches seemingly overnight.
    — Popular Science, 27 Jan. 2020
  • But an encouraging freshman season ended abruptly when discomfort in the pelvic region was diagnosed as osteitis pubis, which is generally described as inflammation.
    — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 17 July 2021

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